eminence
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With his gray-and-white mane sleekly accentuating his black and lavender ensemble, he struts with an eminence that had me picturing Eartha Kitt in a Bob Fosse spectacular.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
By 1955, Ms. Newman marvels, “Barney had become an unavoidable eminence after barely having had a career.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
We now live in an era that can be safely summarized as the end of science's peacetime, and perhaps the end of the general eminence of once mighty institutions of higher learning.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2025
In that historical context, Ms Murty's critics say that someone of her stature and eminence should be more aware of what she says in public.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
And it was in Eton’s ancient boathouse, just across the river from the looming eminence of Windsor Castle, that George had grown up.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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